The Vice-Chancellor reminds members of the University that an additional Congregation will take place on Monday, 25 June 2007, at 2.45 p.m., at which the Chancellor will admit the following persons to Honorary Degrees:
HANS MARTIN BLIX, Ph.D., of Trinity Hall, Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency and formerly Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission for Iraq.
ANN COTTON, O.B.E., Entrepreneur in Residence at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning in Judge Business School, founder and Executive Director of the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED International).
The Right Honourable ONORA SYLVIA, Baroness O'NEILL OF BENGARVE, C.B.E., M.A., Litt.D., formerly Principal and now Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Honorary Professor of Ethical and Political Philosophy, President of the British Academy.
Sir NICHOLAS HERBERT STERN, M.A., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Second Permanent Secretary and Head of the Government Economic Service, HM Treasury.
RICHARD ERSKINE FRERE LEAKEY, formerly Permanent Secretary, Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Public Service of Kenya and sometime Director of the Kenya National Museums and of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Sir JOHN BERTRAND GURDON, Ph.D., F.R.S., formerly Master and now Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, sometime Fellow of Churchill College, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Cell Biology Emeritus, and formerly Chairman of the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology.
DAVID HOCKNEY, C.H., R.A., artist.
MURIEL CLAIRE TOMALIN, M.A., F.R.S.L., Honorary Fellow of Newnham College and of Lucy Cavendish College and Honorary Member of Magdalene College, writer.
Ticket-holders will need to be in their places in the Senate-House not later than 2.30 p.m. If it is fine, a procession will form up in the Schools Arcade at 2.25 p.m. Those in the categories listed below who wish to process must give notice of their intention, and processional tickets will be issued to them up to the number of places available. The Congregation will end at about 3.45 p.m.
There will be a Garden Party after the Congregation for all those attending. It will be held on the lawn in Senate-House Yard and refreshments will be served. There will be provision for cover in the event of wet weather.
Members of the University attending the Congregation are required to wear academical dress in accordance with the relevant regulations. Other persons attending do not wear academical dress. Monday, 25 June 2007, will be a scarlet day, and Doctors in the several Faculties are requested to wear their festal gowns. Hoods are worn at this Congregation. In accordance with Regulation 4 for academical dress (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 185) any member of the University (other than the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, High Steward, Deputy High Steward, Commissary, Proctors, Registrary, Esquire Bedells, the Orator, and the graduands) who is a graduate of another university or degree-awarding institution, may, on this occasion, wear the academical dress appropriate to that degree.
Admission to the Senate-House and Yard will be strictly by ticket only and entry to the Yard on this occasion will be by the South-East Gate, from King's Parade.
All members and all staff (including retired staff) of both the University and the Colleges are invited to apply for tickets. In order to encourage wider participation from within the University, it is regretted that guest tickets will not be available.
Applications for tickets, which must be made by letter or by e-mail, and must give the postal address of the applicant and their University or College affiliation, should be sent to Mr Timothy Milner, Ceremonial Officer, at the Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN (e-mail tnm22@cam.ac.uk), to arrive not later than Friday, 25 May 2007. Applications cannot be made in person or by telephone.
Tickets will be allocated strictly in the order in which applications are received and it is regretted that unsuccessful applications will not be acknowledged. Applicants will understand that there may be more applications than places that are available. Those who find that they cannot use their tickets are asked to return them so that their seats may be offered to others.
Further details of the arrangements will be included with the tickets.
No tickets for admission to Senate-House Yard will be available on the day of the Congregation. Tickets are not transferable.
Those in the classes specified below, who wish to take part in the procession, are asked to state this clearly in their applications. Processional tickets will be issued up to the number of places available. Only holders of Cambridge Professorial Chairs or Cambridge Higher Doctorates are eligible to process as Professors or Doctors.
With the assent of the Proctors, the Vice-Chancellor has prescribed the following order of processions prior to this Congregation.
Those listed below (who have tickets to admit them to the procession, as specified above) assemble in the Schools Arcade not later than 2.25 p.m. (entering by the South-East Gate from King's Parade).
The Vice-Marshal
Heads of Colleges
The Regius Professor of Divinity
The Regius Professor of Civil Law
The Regius Professor of Physic
The Regius Professor of Hebrew
The Regius Professor of Greek
Professors who are Doctors
Doctors of Divinity
Doctors of Law
Doctors of Medicine
Doctors of Science and Doctors of Letters
Doctors of Music
The Librarian
Professors who are not Doctors
Members of the Council
The Pro-Proctors
A second procession will then form as follows, and will proceed immediately after the first:
The Esquire Bedells
The Chancellor
The Chancellor's Train-bearer
The University Marshal
The Orator The Vice-Chancellor The Registrary
The Proctors
The High Steward
The Deputy High Steward
The Commissary
The Pro-Vice-Chancellors
The Honorary Graduands
The University Constables
The Deputy Proctors